Lighten Up

Please tell me why Congressman Robert Wexler is in trouble for playing along with a joke on The Colbert Report? How out of touch do you have to be not to understand that Wexler was not actually being serious when he said "I enjoy cocaine because it's a fun thing to do?"

The answer is that he's not in trouble. There's no downside for Wexler, despite the tut-tutting of the clueless pundit class. He now looks cool to an entire class of voters.

And why in God's name is Nancy Pelosi requesting that her caucus not appear on Colbert's "Better Know A District" segment? "Why would anybody go on there," she said. I don't know, Nanc, maybe because they want to be on the only entertainment program in America that will feature members of the House of Representatives? The only program that has a substantially young audience that talks about politics? If I was a staffer I'd ask my Representative to be on The Colbert Report nightly.

By the way, Colbert gave the perfect response to the criticism, and was clearly so agitated by the idiot news media trying to make an issue out of this that he actually stepped out of his character to do it. It's a sad commentary that you can get more news from a night on Comedy Central than a week of morning "news" shows.